simple difficult life – it is a poetic means. This site is about various aspects of life.

Freedom or Daily Life in Captivity

“Ah, freedom, freedom! The merest hint, the faintest hope of its possibility gives wings to the soul, does it not?”

A man would surely obtain freedom he is dreaming about.

But…

“But not more than a week had passed before life went on as in the past, as gloomy, oppressive, and senseless – a life not forbidden by government prohibition, but not fully permitted, either: it was no better.”
“The Man in a Case” by Anton Chekhov

A man constantly repeats the same mistakes. He doesn’t mark out new paths. He conserves the same trodden paths in the nervous system.